The Birth Of Industrial Britain Av Kenneth Morgan

<P>The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.</P> <P> <I>The Birth of Industrial Britain </I>examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain?s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.</P>This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and ?Who?s Who? section. <I>The Birth of Industrial Britain </I>provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.